A MAN who has raised over £10,000 for charity with tractor runs is getting ready for his final mission.

Alan Elliott, from Moorside, Consett, County Durham, has clocked up hundreds of miles, trundling along at 12mph from coast-to-coast over the years.

In July, the 61-year-old went from Seaham to Flookburgh in Cumbria, raising £1,500 for Macmillan Cancer Support.

He then sold a living van he had built for the journey, which raised a further £4,500 for the charity.

Mr Elliott travels with his friend Bobby Suddes, 57, from Consett, in a John Deere 30-50 tractor loaned from the Suddes family at West Newbiggin Farm at Lanchester.

He said: “I am very proud of what we have done. We are just trying to raise as much money as possible for people who are worse off.”

The journeys started in 2013 with a run from the Horse and Groom in Moorside to the Dr Syntax in Prudhoe, raising over £3,000, followed by cross country trip the year after from Seaham to Silloth, which brought in £1,345.

The duo are leaving the Horse and Groom in Moorside on Boxing Day and heading for The Shepherd and Shepherdess at Beamish for their final adventure.